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Let There Be Love
Sometime around my seventeenth birthday, in fact, exactly on my seventeenth birthday, I was sat, crowded by people who loved me, staring down a cake, that made me anxious, making a wish, for someone else to love me, differently, obviously. I wasted a wish, on a waste of time, waiting for too long, for the…
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Star Watching
The earth is still tonight. Gradient sky, so sweet and shy above me, so many shades of blue, dusky and delicate, showing off the stars I never see, because air pollution wants all the attention, but the earth is still tonight, and the stars are here to visit, I remember when I stood by your…
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Lockdown: Day Number… Honestly, I Don’t Know
The world is ending, probably. I’m not a doctor, or the prime minister, so I can’t be sure, but everything feels unapologetically apocalyptic, so I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to think. I think I’m supposed to panic, but I’m actually relieved, laying in the dark, remembering little moments of life, my heart, still…
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Happiness, And Other Made Up Fairy Tales
I thought, for a change, I might try to be happy. I read once, that you can have the life you dream of, if you believe enough, but I’ve swallowed so much snake oil, that I’m not sure there is room for more, so my belief system is just a blanket of bad ideas, patched…
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Go To Waste In The Wrong Arms
I guess I never learned to paint my nails properly, like everything in my life, I can’t quite keep between the lines, but you don’t seem to mind. You tell me they look nice, and your voice, soft and reassuring, is all the convincing I need, to keep splattering black nail varnish, in the vague…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 